Hey, Lisa, whip up a tam for Jerry. Go!

here are amazing knitting records on the Guinness site, like the longest scarf in the world, shown here with Brian Main, chief executive of Feed The Children. The scarf was so long (33 miles!) they had to measure in a stadium in Cardiff. It was hand knit by more than 2,000 people in Wales, over 18 months, to raise money for a children's hospice and the Feed the Children program. For more information on the scarf, go to the Guinness site.

According to a story in the The News Star in Monroe, La., on Monday, the day before her 48th birthday, Lisa whipped out 119 stitches a minute at a library in Jonesboro, La., which would have been enough to get her name in the "Guinness Book of World Records." She needed a video of the attempt, however, and the camera failed. Miriam Tegals from The Netherlands set the current record of 118 stitches per minute on Dec. 9, 2006. Lisa already holds the record for crochet. On June 25, 2005, Lisa crocheted 170 stitches in one minute, beating the former record of 147 crocheted stitches per minute.Lisa crocheted 5,112 stitches in 30 minutes. Lisa told the News Star she'll try for the knitting record again next month.

Gentry, who learned to knit when she was an 8-year-old German schoolgirl, now sells her knitting patterns on eBay and has her patterns published in several craft pattern books. Gentry told the News Star that she knits about 40 to 60 hours each week. To get her speed up, she donned earphones listened to a recording of a ticking clock. "I knew that I had to make two stitches every time that I heard that click," she said.(A "sad" aside: Because so many of her projects go directly to magazine publishers, her husband Jerry -- despite being married to Lisa for a decade -- has yet to get anything hand knit from her.)

According to the News Star story, Lisa plans to take part in the competition for the title of fastest knitter in the world in Minneapolis. (For more on speed knitting, check out this UK site.)

The World Finals are scheduled for Feb. 16-17 in 'America's Largest Shopping Mall' in Minneapolis, Minnesota. That's part of Craft Yarn Council of America's second annual Knit & Crochet event at the Mall of America. More than 50,000 attended last year's Great American Knit-Out and even more are expected this year. For more information on 2008 Knit-Out & Crochet, go here.